Gentoo question

[Collins]

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On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 09:30:54 +0200 Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se>
wrote:
> 
> I am planning on trying a gentoo install. I would like it all in one
> partition. Is this possible? The docs talk about different
> partitions for boot and root. 

Just decline to create the /boot partition and don't mount it when
clled for during the install.   After installation is complete and
before rebooting, eliminate the line in /etc/fstab for the /boot
partition.  You may need to do something with grub on gentoo as well.
Since I mave multiple distros, I don't do the grub work recommended in
the gentoo install, but rather add the gentoo boot stanza to my
existing grub menu.lst.


< How many partitions can you have on a
> somewhat new 80 GB disk? I still have the 4 partitions idea. Out of
> date here? I have never really needed more on one system, so I never
> checked...
> 

You can have 3 primary, one extended, and a very large number of
logical partitions under the extended partition.  I don't remember
what the limit is for logical partitions.  I use logical partitions
for most everything.

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